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Happy Belated Earth Day! Here are a couple books I read/re-read recently that celebrate nature in very different ways.

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top 5 places you've visited?

Thank you!

Haworth, UK - for the Brontë Parsonage Museum, of course. But also it's just a gorgeous place. I've been twice, and I hope I'll get to go back.

London, UK - my favorite city ever. It's the only big city in the world I truly like and enjoy walking around in. I could probably even live there despite always saying I would hate to live in a (real) city.

Spetses, Greece - our favorite part of our honeymoon. It's so gorgeous! Husband and I will be going back someday.

Charlottesville, Virginia - bit of a weird one here. But I went there for a conference and absolutely loved it! There are so many cute restaurants and cafes and a fantastic bookshop (that I bought waaaay too many books in). And the university is gorgeous. 10/10 would go back.

Athens, Greece - mainly because of the history. I'm not huge on cities generally (too crowded, too loud), but getting to see the Acropolis was amazing.

#answered

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put “top 5” anything in my ask and i will answer ok go

#asks #ask me

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#truth

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Because being a Derry Girl, well, it's a fucking state of mind.

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run boy run

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#babies

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#monotone #can't stand it

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WIP of Penelope with her forever-unfinished shroud.

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Okay look. Stephanie Meyer contributed four (4) cool things to the contemporary fantasy genre, which I shall now list here in the hopes of getting it out of my system. In descending order of importance:

1. Writing a story about a girl who wants something. Plot driven by a woman’s (non-vilified) desire. Truly dreadful execution but still a good idea, sort of a literary incarnation of the “he a little confused but he got the spirit” meme.

2. The fact that when Bella becomes a vampire she can still breathe but “there’s no relief tied to the action” which I remember verbatim because it fucking slapped. The idea of human physical sensations being partially defined by our mortality and the sensations still exist after you become undead but your experience of them is fundamentally different because you no longer need any of it? Extremely cool. The closest Meyer came to taking an interesting stance on vampires being dead.

3. Werewolves are immortal but they can literally stop whenever they want. That shit’s hilarious. Curse of immortality who.

4. The fact that vampires don’t sleep or get tired so their communally-raised baby doesn’t have a crib because she is always in someone’s arms. That was extremely cute and there’s a different, better book contained somewhere in that specific concept.

#i agree with all of those #also #better book contained somewhere in that concept #sums up the entire series #and i say that as someone who has a very special place in my heart for it

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#peppermint

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“Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat…giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien.

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The highly social and expressive grey wolves are most well-suited to cooperative hunting of all the canids. Playtime looks pretty much the same though! ©

#babies

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i have been constantly in tears over this newly hatched duck i found on instagram last night

#baby

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oh so when other people say "eat the rich" it's a rallying cry for the working class, but when i, sweeney todd,

#🤣

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the best part of being an adult is being able to buy things without having to explain shit to anyone. and the worst part is everything else

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Lovely edition of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame with illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard